Ian K wrote: >Oh yes, I should also note that this seems to only happen in KDE, >not XFCE or FluxBox. I perosnally dont care for GNOME so I haven't >tried it. But I did notice that when I briefly had Ubuntu on this laptop, >I did not have these issues. Is KDE the culprit? > >
Probably not KDE, but possibly X itself. Maybe it isn't the CPU, but the GPU that is overheating. The radeon driver has a "DynamicClocks" setting (man radeon). Do you have this option in your xorg.conf file? >PS>> With those temperatures, I do have all available options under >ACPI enabled, however, GKrellm2 says in the info tab that no such >sensors were found. I am also on Kernel 2.6.13-rc1-mm1. Is that >too bleeding edge? :) > > Do you have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature? If so, just do: while sleep 2 ; do clear ; cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature; done Again, did you check /var/log/messages to see if anything interesting shows up there. If you have Machine Check Exception options in your kernel, many overheating, fan, or voltage problems should get reported there. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
